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    <p>I've read with interest the techniques available on the web to extract a unique list of items from a XML file containing duplicates using XSL.</p> <p>These range into 2 categories: 1) The Muenchian method (example: <a href="http://www.jenitennison.com/xslt/grouping/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.jenitennison.com/xslt/grouping/</a>) 2) Or the previous-sibling look-up These both rely on an XPath expression to select the data to group by.</p> <p>However, in the XML file that I'm trying to work out, the data is not present "natively" in the XML file. I am using a xsl:template to compute some aggregated data from my elements. And I would like to group based on the aggregated data.</p> <p>For example I have:</p> <pre><code>&lt;filmsreview&gt; &lt;record&gt;&lt;data name='movie'&gt;Star Wars&lt;/data&gt;&lt;data name='ratings'&gt;John:Good, Mary:Good&lt;/data&gt;&lt;/record&gt; &lt;record&gt;&lt;data name='movie'&gt;Indiana Jones&lt;/data&gt;&lt;data name='ratings'&gt;John:Good, Mary:Bad, Helen:Average&lt;/data&gt;&lt;/record&gt; &lt;record&gt;&lt;data name='movie'&gt;Titanic&lt;/data&gt;&lt;data name='ratings'&gt;John:Bad, Helen:Good&lt;/data&gt;&lt;/record&gt; &lt;/filmsreview&gt; </code></pre> <p>I know that the structuration of data is not perfect and that by creating sub-elements I could do something easier, but I cannot change the data source easily, so let's take this as a challenge.</p> <p>And I would like to build a recap where I have John's distinct ratings: John's ratings: Good Bad</p> <p>I have a xsl:template that can take a record element and return John's rating for this record: Example:</p> <pre><code>&lt;xsl:template name="get_rating"&gt; &lt;xsl:param name="reviewer" /&gt; &lt;!-- I use some string manipulation, and xsl:value-of to return the review for John--&gt; &lt;/xsl:template&gt; </code></pre> <p>I can just call it under a xsl:for-each to get the exhaustive list of John's review. But I cannot combine this call with any of the methods to get unique values.</p> <p>Do I have to use an intermediary XSL to convert my XML file to a more structured way? Or can I do in a single step?</p> <p>Many thanks Gerard</p>
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